cookie exchange

i think everyone's going to a cookie exchange this year!! i had never been to one. but once i was invited, i was hearing everyone talk about how they were making some dozen cookies for an exchange. even our post office lady Debbie was having one, right here in the post office! it's like when you hear a word for the first time that you've never known the meaning of (but you should have) and then all of a sudden you hear it everywhere. i think it's God's fun way of aiding one's memory...and also making one feel a fool for not knowing what punctiliar meant, or how versus was spelled. yah. ahem. anyhoo...

mom and i made Spritz and Persimmon cookies, which, i found out, were quite the unique additions to the church cookie exchange. there was plenty of chocolate/mint combinations, and plenty of sugar cookies, but ours were the stellar representations of their kind. my mom-in-law brought Rosettes, which are even more unique among the cookie species and they went fast. but out of all the cookies, my favorite (the least Christmasy and the kind most found in my take-home box) were the peanut butter cookies with the reeses peanut butter cup pressed into the middle. ah, how can you go wrong there!? but for our family, Spritz and Persimmon are Christmas traditions. they just have to be made. amen and amen.